Miami-Dade residents unload anger at public transit meeting: More than 600 people gave up a sunny Saturday to talk about the shortcomings of the local transit system in spite of a half-cent sales tax that was supposed to build new rail lines to every corner of the county. I already reported on one Miami Dade County Boondoggle today besides I wrote about this meeting on November 6th. Read the column by Larry Lebowitz in the Herald (from the article):
"As The Miami Herald reported earlier this year, while the campaign promised ''New Money for New Projects,'' more than 60 percent of the sales-tax revenue has gone toward routine transit operations and maintenance. Shortly after the election, county leaders slid more than $700 million worth of maintenance and upkeep projects that the voters had never approved into the sales-tax plan."
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I attended the summit, and all I kept hearing was, "We over-promised, we over-promised", but the fact still remains that alot of the revenue generated from the 1/2-penny sales tax was misused and/or mismangaged. The C.I.T.T definitely needs more "teeth" to really affect any sort of positive change within Miami-Dade Transit. Also, whatever happened to the South florida Regional Transit Authority? We need a larger governing body to put the "authority" back in transit because obviously we can't trust the C.I.T.T nor MDT officials to maintain an ethical and transparent environment.
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